(Photo: Ansa Matteo Corner) This Monday, the long-awaited press conference was held to unveil the Teatro alla Scala’s 2025–26 season. The lineup promises to shine with big names, new productions, and ambitious projects. That’s why we’re bringing you a Top five list of the unmissable highlights of the new season! Number 1: A Bold Opening As tradition dictates, the season {…}
(Photo: Brescia e Amisano) It was December 7, 2019, when the curtain of Teatro alla Scala rose before the select audience that annually attends the Sant’Ambroeus performance, better known among opera lovers as “La prima della Scala,” the event that inaugurates the new season of the prestigious Italian theater. To open the 2019-20 season—unaware that it would soon be brutally {…}
The Teatro alla Scala has announced a cast change for its production of Puccini’s “Turandot.” The company said that Michele Gamba will conduct the production replacing the originally announced Daniel Harding. Gamba made his Teatro alla Scala in 2016 and has also conducted at the Metropolitan Opera, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Hamburg State Opera, Strasbourg Opera, Toulouse Capitole, Tel Aviv Opera, {…}
The Sinfonica e d’Opera della Fondazione Haydn di Bolzano e Trento has announced its 2024-25 season. Opera Michele Gamba conducts a double bill of Puccini’s “Gianni Schicchi” and Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire.” Valentina Carrasco directs. Performance Dates: Nov. 9 & 10, 2024 Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Sivglia” will be conducted by Alessandro Bonato and directed by Fabio Cherstich. Performance Dates: Jan. {…}